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Washington, May 12.—Recognition of the Omsk Government by the
Allied Powers may be forthcoming at any time, it was intimated today
at the State Department. . . . Added to these developments is news
of the steady loss of power by the Bolsheviki. The ring of nations hostile to their aims is still tightening, while from the East come the
armies of Admiral Kolchak. The end of spring may see the end of
Bolshevism according to the belief in well-informed circles here. . . .
The Navy Department has received short reports indicating the early
demise of Bolshevism.— (New York American, May 13, 1919.)
Washington, D. C, Sunday.—Reports coming to Washington from
various official sources forecast the collapse of the Bolshevist state very
soon, possibly within the next fortnight. Outwardly the Soviet Government continues to operate. Trotzky talks glibly about raising a red
army of enormous proportions, and manifestoes and decrees are issued
without interruption. But, according to information that sifts across
the frontiers of the Bolshevist dominion, the organization is tottering.
. . . Bolshevist Russia, the reports all indicate, is like a leaking ship.
At a distance it looks formidable. Actually its radical crew is demoralized. The whole fabric of authority is waterlogged and at any moment
it may go down like a plummet.— (New York Herald, June 2, 1919.)
Paris, April 30.—Bolshevism is fading out in Eastern Europe. President Wilson's experts on the Slavic, Polish and Magyar situations have
sound information to this effect. The British and French Governments
have received like news, and the opening of summer . . . finds the
Bolshevik movement decidedly on the wane. Except for the points
where Bolshevik troops are in contact with invading troops of foreign
nations . . . there is little vigor remaining in the Bolshevik movement in Russia.— (Special article by William G. Shepard, Foreign Correspondent of the New York Evening Post, printed on June 3, 1919.)
The Cabinet Takes a Hand
The highest government officials have uttered the same
absurdities. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, was
quoted in the New York Herald of May 19, 1919, as follows:
If Bolshevism continues its murderous acts much longer the reaction
will be intensified everywhere. But Bolshevism is on the wane. Russia
will adjust herself before long.
The fabrications about Russia have not been confined to
prophecy. Misrepresentation of present conditions in Russia
have even exceeded the misrepresentations of Russia's future.
Secretary of Labor Wilson said, according to the Washington Star of May 4, 1919,
. . . that Bolshevism is precisely as democratic as was the absolutism
of Czar Nicholas, Kaiser Wilhelm and Emperor Carl, no more and no
less.
Attorney General Palmer, in a letter dated January 27,
1920, and addressed to editors of magazines and newspapers
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